This Blog is Five: You Are…

November 9 marks five years since I started this blog. I like to celebrate big occasions like any school librarian – by gathering and analyzing data! I put up a reader poll (a.k.a. “got this party started”) last week, tabulated the results (a.k.a. “turned on Ginuine’s My Pony”), and created an unintentionally creepy-looking amalgam of the results. If you’re reading this, you are most likely to be…

A. Female. This one wasn’t even close.

B. A public librarian. With school librarian a close second.

C. Born in the 80s. Signified by a Walkman. I was born in 1981, so this lets me know I can drop way more 80s references – look out!

D. A fan of middle grade fiction. This was a pretty close race, with picture books coming in a close second.

E. Would like to meet Mo Willems. This one surprised me – I was expecting Rowling or Van Allsburg to take the top spot.

F. Prefer Seuss to Sendak. This one was, admittedly, unfair. Fun, but unfair.

Thank you to everyone who’s taken a look at this site over the past five years. Here’s to five more.

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com. He's also on...